For many years I’ve been interested in the new contact lens technology that allows more people to wear contacts than ever before. The contact lens technology has progressed to the point where there are very few people in the world that can’t wear contact lenses. I tried contacts many years ago but wasn’t happy with them – at the time the eye doctor said that I had to wear semi-soft lenses. Well, I couldn’t get those crazy things out of my eyes! So I gave up. Well, after reading about the latest contact lenses on the market, I’m thinking that maybe I’ll give it another try.
I think that every generation thinks thinks that they have it rougher than any other generation. I think that there is a trade off. Before all of the great technological advances people did not have many of the cool gadgets like DVD players for cars and a GPS device to help keep them from getting lost, but they also led a simpler life with less stress. Or perhaps I should say a different kind of stress. One of the drawbacks to the technological advances, such as all of the audio and video devices is the fact that we learn very quickly a lot of bad news. And bad news is very stressful.
On the other hand, the advancing technology creates the opportunities to have a lot more fun. Many people don’t have to labor physically as hard as they used to because of the introduction of some great labor saving devices, such as vacuum cleaners and automatic washing machines and dishwashers. I’ll be very interested to see what other kinds of labor saving devices will be invented in my lifetime!
A few months ago my brother bought a wireless light switch for me to use on my bedside table lamp. I didn’t really feel I needed one, but it was a gift from someone who loved me, so I gratefully and dutifully plugged it in. Today I was reading the Consumer Reports Shopsmart magazine for January 2010 and saw it featured in their recall article as being a fire hazard! So I have just unplugged the switch and plan to call the toll free number and hope that they will issue a refund of some sort! I never would have know about this recall if I hadn’t read that magazine! I think maybe I should subscribe to it!
Sometimes I wonder why in the world people would want hundreds upon hundreds on television channels on their television! When I was growing up, we only had a rotating antenna on our rooftop and got about six television stations! We would spend most of our day working or playing, and only watch the television in the evenings or on Saturday morning (cartoons for the kids!)
Life sure has changed since the introduction of cable and satellite television! Most of my friends and neighbors now have Direct Satellite TV for their television. They tell me how much they enjoy being able to watch so many different sports channels on their Direct TV, and so many good movies, too! I can see why having Satellite Directv would be especially good for shut-ins who can’t move around very much – at least having the wide variety of choices could help prevent them from going stir-crazy! I just hope that healthy people balance their lives and get plenty of exercise, too! Maybe put a television in front of their treadmill so they’re walking while watching!
I was looking for a video on you tube of Aretha Franklin singing “I’ve got the music in me” but couldn’t find one! While looking, I found this version of her song “Think” that was adapted and changed to be a message about drinking and driving! I’ve never heard this version, I thought it was great! I hope you enjoy it too! AND take the message seriously too!
For as long as I can remember I’ve loved reading about foreign countries. The exotic cultures simply fascinate me! Ant the beautiful photos are so inspiring me! And I love to watch the Travel Channel whenever I get the chance. I’ve been saving my pennies for years now, hoping to be able to save up enough to travel around Europe. If I’m lucky I should be able to find some cheap holiday deals to get me there in the next year or two!
Over the past several years I’ve become friends with quite a few people from Spain and from Greece and they have regaled me with tales of how beautiful their countries are. And they tell me that if I go to their home towns that they have relatives that would be more than happy to let me stay with them for a few days as an honored guest! Now how nice is that?
So I”m focusing now on trying to figure out the best value in Hotels in Alcudia Spain, and the best value Cheap Holidays in Greece to see what I can come up with. I’m using the website www.ulookubook.com – it seems to have everything I need!
Seeing Mount Olympus has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember! I’d love to get over there this summer if it is at all possible!
My dear great-aunt decided it was time for me to be more creative and gave me a ton of fabric that she had collected over the years. She said that it was time to pass the torch of fabric collecting on to a younger family member! Some of this fabric is beautiful and I can see why she would be attracted to it. Some of it though, is just plain ugly! Naturally she didn’t put any labels on any of it telling me what the content is, or the yardage, so I guess the first thing to do is measure it all out and pin small notes on them telling me how much fabric there actually is! Then I have to figure out what to actually DO with it!
This is such a volatile time in the housing industry, and in the employment uncertainties that I really think that this is not a good time to buy a house if there is any chance at all that you might lose your job. Now if you are independently wealthy and it doesn’t matter if you work or not, well then go ahead and buy a house! But if there is any chance at all that you might lose your job, I think that looking at homes for rent is a better option. That way if you lose your job and can’t make the rent payments and get kicked out, well then at least you haven’t lost a huge investment (as in a large down payment!)
One of the things that you really need to be careful of, in renting a home, is determining what repairs the landlord is willing to take on in the event something breaks down. For example, if the furnace breaks down, who pays to fix it? Kitchen appliances, etc?
One of the first apartments I rented I thought that the landlord would keep the lawn mowed in the summer and the driveway shoveled in the winter. It was a rude awakening to discover that the landlord was not providing those things! The first hint was when there was a big snowstorm just a couple of weeks after moving in and my car was buried deep in the driveway. I called the landlord to inquire when she was going to send a plow truck over to plow the driveway and parking lot. Her answer was that she wasn’t sending anyone over – that was my responsibility! Well, there was nothing in the lease agreement one way or the other so I was quite upset over that! Thankfully I was withing walking distance to work, so I hoofed it to work that day. And the next. After a while one of the other apartment tenants decided to arrange to get the driveway and parking lot plowed out. I offered to chip in some money to pay the fee, but he didn’t want any. He even shoveled out my car for me! I lucked out that time!
Every time I am driving in my car it seems that I hear this song on the radio. It is very catchy and it makes me want to dance! I just got home a few minutes ago, having freshly heard it on my radio and decided to look it up on youtube. Up until tonight I didn’t know the name of the song, or the artist. Tonight I found out (the announcer FINALLY said it!) and so now I am putting it on my blog for posterity! Hope you like it as much as I do!
I happen to like pink. A lot. I think it was several years ago when I was reading some kind of article about how different colors tend to influence people. The article suggested that if you want people to like you, then wearing pink cklothes and jewelry would influence their feelings. And a lot of people who are interested in gemology think that pink quartz gives off the energy of love. And pink roses are supposed to mean “love” too!
Well, I don’t know if that is true or not, but pink has always been one of my favorite colors, and that article just gave me an excuse to wear more pink clothes and jewelry!
I was just looking at some pictures of ladies Movado Watches and found several pink ones that really tickled my fancy! So I am definitely dropping a few hints around that for Valentine’s Day I would really like to have the one with a stainless steel band and pink dial.
I think that particular watch has the perfect balance of form, function and beauty. I’m not the type of person that wears really large “clunky” accessories. I don’t know why, but it just doesn’t feel like “me.”
When I hear about all of the different natural disasters that occur around the world, I have to wonder if there is anyplace on earth that is really and truly safe? It seems that everywhere has SOMETHING catastrophic just waiting around the corner!
My prayers and best wishes go out to the people of Haiti, the victims, their friends and family, and the many rescuers that have arrived or who are on their way to help. It truly is amazing how many countries and people are putting aside their difference and rising to the occassion and trying to help!
Not too long ago my uncle retired from the insurance company that he worked for. He worked there for forty years! I cannot even imagine working for any one company for that long a period of time! It seems that in this era the businesses don’t want to keep employees that long – they don’t want to pay benefits of any kind!
We had always bought our insurance through him out of a sense of family loyalty, but now that he is no longer in the business my folks have decided to start looking around for cheap auto insurance quotes on the Internet. With the economy still in such rough shape it seems like a good idea to see if we can save some money and still have good coverage on our insurance policies!
It wasn’t many years ago that my parents bought a new car and were completely shocked about how much their insurance rates went up when they went to insure it! I think that the cost of insuring a new car is not something many people take into consideration when they decide to start shopping for a new car! I know that would be the last thing on my mind if I was looking at a new car!
Anyway, I found a website called cheap-autoinsurance.com and decided to check out what they had to say. We had to enter our zip code into their little search engine and then they displayed several different low-cost partners to click on to get quotes. I decided to click on the Progressive link because I know that they have a reputation for comparing lots of different companies at the same time. I wanted to give it a go and see if Progressive would really tell me if there was a cheaper company than Progressive! So I typed in my information and sure enough, up popped a grid of different quotes, and one of the insurance companies really WAS cheaper! I was quite surprised at that result!
I see many people who eat something (for example yogurt) because they say they are trying to lose weight. I look at the caloric value of the yogurt and it is about 200 calories for the container. Then I look at the caloric value of a Little Debbie Nutty bar – a wonderful chocolate covered wafer with peanut butter filling (yum!) and find that it has the same caloric count! So if I’m hungry for a sweet snack and have a choice between yogurt and a Nutty Bar, it is going to take a lot of will power to get me to chose the yogurt! I much prefer a sweet flavor and a crunch!
Online Colleges certainly seem to be increasing in popularity lately! I have many friends who are taking courses in their spare time through one online college or another. They are very excited about it because they tend to cost less money than brick and mortar colleges, and taking the courses online makes for an easier schedule. Most online courses you can take the classes at whatever time is convenient for you, so it is much easier than trying to fit in a class according to when you can get child care!
Many times a person’s employer can find a way to assist the student with tuition reimbursement which provides a lot of incentive as well! One of the things I like about taking courses online is that I can pause for a few minutes and take a break if I need to without disrupting an entire classroom! And note taking is much easier too! I’m not the kind of person that can sit through a long boring lecture and actually learn anything! My learning style is much more visual oriented. I learn best by reading and writing things down.
That makes online courses a better fit for me, and I think that may also be a big reason why so many other students are using online courses as well. Plus, you can go to class in your jammies if you want to!
I have transferred several of my prescriptions over to the local Rite Aid here in town and have received a $25 Rite Aid gift card for each one so far. I like Rite Aid and I won’t have any problem spending the gift cards on personal care items that I usually buy at Wally World.
I have had the pleasure of attending a good share of trade shows in my time. Since while growing up my parents owned and ran their own small business, they took advantage of all that trade show have to offer. It is a great way to get the word out about your goods or service. The networking that goes on at these trade shows is worth it’s weight in gold if you know how to network and are a “people person”
My folks relied pretty heavily on my knowledge of the English language when they were first starting out. And they certainly didn’t have the nice trade show booths that are available and so easy to use these days. They made do with the folding card tables that were dragged from the house each time we set up at one of these exhibitions back in the day. These days they have really nice fancy affordable table skirts, literature holders, banner stands, pop ups, hanging overhead displays, pipe and drape sets and crowd control products that are just awesome for today’s trade shows.
We no longer rely on nor attend these events as much as we used to, but we do find that we enjoy attending one once in awhile, it’s good to get out with the family and learn what is out there in our community, meet new people, catch up with the old timers and the free give aways are always a nice treat to walk out the door with. Some times you come home with some pretty nifty items, and I like free.
It is too bad that we lost Pavarotti a few years back. I always enjoyed the albums that came out of his Pavarotti & Friends tour that were so popular each year in the 90′s. I like being able to go onto YouTube.com and finding all the songs and videos that would be such a challenge trying to find in the stores.
This Pavarotti & Sting video is excellent, they are both great artists and when you mix them together you get an awesome experience for all to enjoy, hope you enjoy it as well.
I have heard many nightmare stories from friends and relatives about the stress involved with moving from one house to another. What is especially difficult, it seems, is moving families that have been in one place a long time. Isn’t it amazing how much “stuff” people accumulate and are reluctant to part with? I find it rather sad that so many people (myself included) tend to be pack-rats!
One way to reduce the stress of moving is to use this great website that helps you to compare movers for their prices and services. In this tight economy, you want to make sure that you get the best value for your dollar! Yes, you want to save money, but you also need to ensure that your belongings are well cared for during the move!
I find 3D movies a novelty. And when I go to an amusement park, such as DisneyWorld, I enjoy the 3D shows that they have there. But to be perfectly honest those 3D glasses that you have to wear to watch a 3D show is a real hassle. Every time a 3D television show comes on and is hyped up to the point where people are running out to get their pair of 3D glasses I just shudder at the thought. Unless and until they make 3D clip-ons for people who wear glasses, I am not planning on subscribing to any 3D pay television programming! I just can’t stand wearing those glasses!